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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Three suggestions

One try appbrain instead of the market .

Two SGS tools has a market fix .

Three return the phone to a service centre but you have non standard firmware on .

Number four would be to try a complete wipe and format of all data and sd card .

Install Eclair from Odin see if that fixes problem .At a guess something is left over from Danger mans rom .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ozzah:
OK guys, thanks for your help so far, but I'm not quite out of the deep water yet.

(Please bare with me, I'm not a techno-retard but I don't really do a lot of flashing, and I'm quite new to Android!)

I had a lot of trouble getting the firmwares to push to the phone. Some would go on, some would refuse. Generally speaking, after loading the firmwares I would just get the Samsung logo. Sometimes the logo would stay forever, and sometimes it would come up for 5 seconds and then the phone would power down. Sometimes when I plugged the phone in (while it was off), I would get the "working circle" for a second, the grey battery under the circle for a second, then a black screen for a second, then repeat the cycle all over, forever.

I have gotten somewhere since then, but I'm not sure it's somewhere better, it's just somewhere different.

I put on:

s1_odin_20100803.pit

CODE_I9000XWJPI.tar.md5

MODEM_I9000XXJPY.tar.md5

onto the phone using Odin3 1.70

It flashed, and said PASS!

Now, the phone displays the Samsung logo for a few seconds, then I get the following screen:

Android system recovery (3e)

Samsung Recover Utils

- for BML -

[menu]

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11

(Invalid argument)

E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

(No such file or directory)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed.

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11

(Invalid argument)

E:Can't mount CACHE:log/recovery.log

E:Can't open CACHE:log/recovery.log

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11

(Invalid argument)

...That doesn't look friendly, but I decided to try the "format internal sd-card" option to see what that did:

Formatting SDCARD:...

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

(No such file or directory)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed.

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11

(Invalid argument)

E:Can't mount CACHE:log/recovery.log

E:Can't open CACHE:log/recovery.log

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11

(Invalid argument)

...So that's where I'm at, at the moment.

Any ideas?

I'm getting a little desperate here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solidsnew:
sd was already completely wiped. market fix of sgs tools helps completely nothing. will try later eclair. I bought the phone with contract from internet. last time phone got bricked and I deleted any evidence and sent it with airmail to the distributor. Can I also go to the next Samsung Service Centre or must it be the distributor?....

Now I get really fxxing mad. I spent already about 60€ in market... just resetted everything and registered the phone with another gmail login. It seems to work, I'm totally pissed how can that be?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Why 803 pit .

Why not follow one of the upgrade posts at least you may get to a working phone .

As it is you dont know what you are doing and going around in circles .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818556

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solidsnew:
You know why smartphones are called smartphones? Because they are smart enough to repair themself when then operator sucks... I don't know what the **** I did. Factory reset again and logged again with my first google account. Could install apps, tried Titanium backup and restore > Bug appeared again. Reboot in recovery and wipe cache. Bug gone and again titanium backup, some progs went good then again the bug. recovery and wipe cache again. This time I installed all "big" applications (Totemo, Everlands, Dolphin HD) manually and run then tb. Now the restore seems to work.

But the interesting point I found out how to delete the bug (no usb and no app installation): Boot in recovery and perform Wipe Cache. But not once, at least twice! It sound totally stupid, but I did it also times before, but every time I clicked only once. Now I had several times my bug and performing Wipe cache 2-3times everytime the bug appears fixxed it.

Will now look if the bug will come back, for the last one hour doesn't look like. But as long as my fix works I don't wanna have problems...

Thanks for all your help, hope I could explain the fix in an understandable way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Number four would be to try a complete wipe and format of all data and sd card .

Does seem to be a problem with some that data is left behind that corrupts the new firmware same on Symbian .

Spent hours on a number of posts with many problems all exactly the same rom .

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ozzah:
Ok I dowloaded JPY_By_Virnik.rar as explained in the thread.

It clearly says that

"All files mentioned in this howto are compressed in this package. Enter this directory you have extracted. All things needed are categorized in it's specific folders."

yet, in [Block 2] it says for step 1 b, c, and d to select the pda, csc, and modem files respectively.

These files are not in that rar file. The only files I see which can go into Odin are

Odin\s1_odin_20100512.pit, and

I9000XXJPY\JPY_JPY_JPY.tar

...Meanwhile I've flashed this firmware as directed by another forum. I had re-partition checked, and selected all files (pit, pda, phone, csc).

I get the Samsung GT-I9000 logo for a few seconds, then the phone powers down. No 3BR either.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoneemooz:
Try this to get 3 button combo fix:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785201
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaman:
Your phone is dead... take it back to Bell for a replacement.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anoneemooz:
Also take a look at this...

This guy seemed to have been lucky and got is supposed dead I9000m SGS working again. Here's his procedure:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905975

Worth a shot.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GalaxyNewb:
I9000M Bricked (sort of)

Well, I've been messing with the Galaxy S for about 26 hours now. Currently on ignore with Bell Tech support. Did the 2.2 update, slowed the system right down as I was unable to get the one click lag fix working again (lost root during update). Anyway, figured I'd root it again, did that, no problem, enabled the one click lag fix again, ran quadrant, speed basically doubled. All fine. Phone starting acting weird, stalling, freezing, seemed like it was running stuff in the background that didn't show up in task manager. Anyway, figured I'd try a fresh rom with all the newest tweaks and updates. During this procedure, phone got fubar'd. It's recognized and writeable with Odin, Kies, ADB and Super1click don't recognize it, nor does explorer. But that's not a big deal. Anyway, load up the original fix with the proper rom and it writes fine, no errors. Reboots, get to the galaxy s and samsung screen, then almost instantly reboots and just goes into the same loop. Can't get into the recover mode either. Only download.

Well, good news is, Called Bell and barely asked me any questions, told them I updated the firmware and now it's stuck in a booting loop. Done, they're sending me a new phone within 3-5 business days and a crediting my account $100. Seems to be a pattern of them doing that from what I've read. He also said the pulled the broken firmware off the webpage (I'm assuming Kies update) as well until they "fixed" it. Ah well, part of testing I guess. :)

Just wanted to say thanks for all the excellent information I've gotten here. very good reading. And yes, when I get the new phone, I'll be rooting it and probably be installing Darky's 8.0.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sug7:
Bricked phone ? please help!

Recently tried changing my battery icon however after reboot the phone has been stuck in a boot loop (only gets to the samsung s at boot then continues looping round on this)

Once a firmware flash is complete the phone boots into recovery mode with the following error

E:Can't mount /dev/block/st111 (Invalid argument)

So far ive tried :

--A full re flash with a full firmware for example JM9

--Updating other firmware files

--Updating the bootloader

Please someone help me ???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidsl:
Internal SD card courrpted? :O
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sug7:
Been playing around with firmware updates, managed to get Darkys v8.0 Gingerbread Edition working as the upgrade didn't require odin...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Restartz:
Bricked phone? only able to load recovery mode

I can flash the kernel with Odin but that's about it.

when I just let it boot, the phone hangs on the logo (intro) screen.

I can boot into recovery mode but I only have CM6.1-GalaxyS-B20101120A.zip in the root of the internal SD

and whenever I try to load that it gives me this error:

Also whenever I try to mount to my pc, my pc only shows removable disks which aren't available. when I click on them it tells me to insert a disk.

In short: I can only boot into recovery mode,

I can't load the only rom I have on my internal SD,

and I can't mount my internal SD to put a new rom on it. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechKidTarek:
help i think i bricked my phone

my phone as sooon as i boot takes me to the android system recovery it says update media please wait E:cant mount /dev/block/stl10 (invalid argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:cant mount DBData then it says your storeage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions then it says Copy default media content failed Help:(:mad::(:confused: tried odin many times does not work jpy also phone does not boot up get ppast the big s into a black screen and phone keeps on vibrating help
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.C1986:
Need help with Bricked Phone ?

Hi guys, just got my phone back from bell due to the internal SD failure.

I flashed the phone with odin trying to get back to JH2 however after flash the phone wont reboot. I can access Download mode but not recovery mode for some reason. When i try to access recovery the phone just boots into loops.

Can anyone help me please. I doubt it is the internal SD issue because i just got my phone back like 3 hours ago....

Thanks all in advance. Between, I flashed with 512 pit and re-partition the frist time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.C1986:
Oh one more thing. For some reason the firmware i downloaded had only 1 file. according to Samfirmware that i do should not re-partition or use pit.files. but i did it anyways. Could this cause my phone to not function ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t_a_x_2:
same happened here looking for an answer.

trying to flash jpc

Ok I managed to get it working again by following some steps that I found on the site

first download jpc firmware

odin 1.3

512 pit file

get your phone in download mode

amd flash it as always

should work
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jersr:
What firmware is flashed?

You say you can get into downloadmode; have you tried flashing other firmware?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
Your phone probally had JL2 on it when you picked it up. So it has a .sbl that is not compatible with jh2. You will need a full JH2 Firmware that includes a sbl.

Try flashing back to to jl2 and see if that gets you up and running again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackSheep92:
Brick? Help

Hi, So the first course

Phone get

2.2.1 Reg Patch pulled over on it

rooted on Odin

Darkys V8 installed

then fix the lag Disabled

After I realized that it has a rough guide and trailers, I wanted to activate the lag fix again, so Recovery Menu and Voodoo Lagfix activated

Restart ....

an ominous voice says in English iwas

After 10 minutes, the Galaxy logo disappeared not certain, then, and it went back alone to

the same voice, then Galaxy logo, etc on my own again until I had taken the battery out

....

Help oO

How can I fix it, new firmware with odin or ka?

I do not know now what file system also has the Galaxy, as used by the Voodoo kernel so different.

Piercing help: (

Sry my englisch is form a Translater^^
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krayzel:
Wrong section, you should go here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=657
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cicinho:
There is no way for it to work in the UK unless you change its imei. It will however work in Asia no problems. Just wait till you get home and throw in a local sim card.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chasist:
how do u change the imei?

i think it is illegal..

but i love this phone and being unable to use it now makes me feel kinda sad u know..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cicinho:
Sorry i have no idea how to change a phones imei, it is illegal. It would take you to google search it as i have never known anyone who has done it before.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
It is illegal.. Why is this imei blocked. If it was stolen, and you are found, and you have reason to believe it may have been stolen, be aware that hanging onto stolen goods (even if you didn't steal them is also illegal)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
If you have friends on different networks ask them if you can insert their sim card to test as not all telcos share blacklist. You can always sell the phone to someone not in uk or save it for when you are back in maylay.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
there is a topic in the DEV section that shows you how to change the IMEI of the phone

however the guide was intended to be used for legit owners that lost their IMEI duing ROM customizations

That's the only tip i'll give, if you can't figure it out from there then you are on your own.

I don't support stolen properties, as i don't want some one else using my phone if i ever lose it and have reported it lost/stolen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
if it loops more than 2 times even when you hold all 3 buttons, then you are out of luck, the phone is not going to go into download mode no matter what trick you try
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chasist:
thanks for all the reply..really appreciate it..i will do as suggested..i dont think by reporting it to police, i will get back my 180 quid..

anything i will update it here
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dakine:
Return the phone, and eat the 180.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Is your 180 quid worth a criminal record if you get caught though?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Changing iemi is more trouble then its worth and will likely brick the phone. Also you need to generate a new iemi which is hell hard. Go send that phone away to some distant nation and let it live its life on the run :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MAMBO04:
People we aren't here to judge, just help him with his situation.

He got sold a device which was already stolen, and he didn't know about it. Now he wants to unblock it but the only way he can is by changing his IMEI, the police won't do squat about it and i'm guessing the seller has already legged it, so cut him some slack here.

You can try the IMEI trick, or if you don't want to, report it to the police and see what happens. Not much else to say here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Henrik313:
Maybe YOU have stolen the phone?

However.

Go to the police, and let give you the money back. The police give the phone the real owner back. What a question?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sparkyuiop:
HERE! HERE! And just to point out, the phone does not have to be stolen to be IMEI blocked. If a phone is blocked because it was lost then that pretty much assures the person that lost it now has a replacement.

Also insurance write offs remain that way and will almost certainly be broken for spares or destroyed.

I know MY GT-I9000 is not stolen but likely it has been replaced as an insurance write off so where am I breaking any law? If anything is it not just being 'Green' by re-cycling and re-using? Yes, that's it I am an Eco Warrior!

Another thing to point out is that you can buy insurance write-offs of just about anything else I can think of, so why not mobile phones?

If I get my phone working I'm not going to tremble every time the fuzz drive by and think that I might randomly get stopped, searched for no reason, have my phone taken for no reason, have the phone analysed for no reason (at the tax payers’ expense) with the chance they could recover the original IMEI and say it technically belongs to an insurance company and arrest me, charge me, send me to court where I get a £50 fine. If the police spent man hours doing that all day we would all be murdered in our beds!

Now, pretty effing please can someone without a backbone made of jelly post a link to changing the IMEI number on the Galaxy S?

Ta:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturmeh:
Changing the IMEI is illegal.

Possessing stolen property is illegal.

You should demand a refund to protect yourself, and if that fails take the phone to the police and tell them who you bought it from.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
HE said it was reported lost/stolen and even lost property needs to be reported to police.. Obviously the owner wants it back or he wouldn't have bothered reporting it. Either way, he should try to get his money back

The only link I've seen relating to imei's was for people with corrupt tables. Never seen any spoofs.

Since he KNOWS it's stolen, if he spoofs the imei number, and gets busted, he is well and truly f***ed, because it shows that he knows that it was.

Report the seller. Either way, if it's illegal to discuss pirated software here, it is probably illegal to discuss changing imei's, and obviously, Samsung wouldn't make it overly easy to do so. And even if it were easy, I wouldn't publicly advertise how to do it, because if my phone gets stolen, then it makes the thief harder to locate. If you guys were the person who owned that phone, would you want it back? So this person got screwed, but the guy who originally owned it got screwed more. Return the phone, the owner might offer an award, or demand a refund.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ariedam:
[Q] Bricked my Galaxy S GT-i9000 !!!

I tried to update the firmware from my European Galaxy S GT-i9000, but it didn't work and now my phone don't turn on.

I can't get anything in the screen.

I already try almost everything to get in download mode. I tried to remove the battery and USB connection for 5 min than put it back with the button combination (I try all combination) pressed. Tried to plug USB first (with and w/o Odin open) and the battery second, battery first and USB second.

It don't even show if the battery is charging. If plug the USB (charger or PC) with the battery in, it get a little warm. So I thing it is charging the battery.

How can I "unbrick" my new phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] odyssey61:
If you plug it into your computer is it detected? Try and run adb and see if it detects it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Porschexda:
I have the same problem. Pc not detect the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstar1:
(Q) Will i permanently brick my galaxy if i ATTEMPT to flash another phones rom?

i feel experimental, will i permanentley brick my phone if i flash a nexus one cyanogen mod to my galaxy, will i be able to access my clockwork mod recovery or even download mode?

quick reply because i feel nervous but i really want to try :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackSheep92:
Brick? Darkys V8

Hi, So the first course

Phone get

2.2.1 Reg Patch pulled over on it

rooted on Odin

Darkys V8 installed

then fix the lag Disabled

After I realized that it has a rough guide and trailers, I wanted to activate the lag fix again, so Recovery Menu and Voodoo Lagfix activated

Restart ....

an ominous voice says in English iwas

After 10 minutes, the Galaxy logo disappeared not certain, then, and it went back alone to

the same voice, then Galaxy logo, etc on my own again until I had taken the battery out

....

Help oO

How can I fix it, new firmware with odin or ka?

I do not know now what file system also has the Galaxy, as used by the Voodoo kernel so different.

Piercing help: (

Sry my englisch is form a Translater^^
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikulec:
Is 3button combo working for u? If u can get to download mode, just flash a rom via odin
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reflux21:
It can take up to 15mins. Try the process again and give it 15 minutes. If it doesnt, repost here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Basta112:
Please help me!!

Hi,

I have a question,|

First of all, I am what you guys call a 'noob', i have never bricked something, but i need to know how Im supposed to do everything word by word!

Thats what I did with my phone with succes, but man(after using it for like a month), i hate this, i want to go back, and have it like a had it when i bought it, and i want to update via kies.

Its a dutch SGS, but I dont know, I think i messed up those codes too(xpa/jpablablabla , each country has a diffrent code is guess) . So i may have a firmwire on it with Identity crisis. I REALLY DONT KNOW, and Im too lazy to find out about it.

So what I want is;

-My phone back to what it was

-Update that thing via Kies to 2.2

-Be happy, and never again play with it.

I hope you guys can help me!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flynny75:
Your main problem is 'Im too lazy to find out about it.'

Search for guides. They are on here and can help you.

Example: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=909223

At least try and help yourself before asking for help
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racerboy3801:
No its voodoo lagfix . Wait for it, the voice is the lagfix. Wait let it boot

Sent from that Green Robot Device with a 4"screen, chewing on some froyo(with an extra .1)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mikulec:
Here u can find what fw version is for your country: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=811194&highlight=froyo+countries
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Basta112:
Thanks guys, but I actually did search for guides and answers(to my question), i really did!!!, but i cant find them, I just cant.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcarr622:
If you go to www.samfirmware.com, they have practically every single firmware there organized by region/country so you should have no trouble finding it, downloading it, and flashing with Odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=909540

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=909223

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcarr622:
You probably should have let Voodoo finish converting the filesystems. It can take over 10 minutes sometimes if you have a lot of files.

At this point, since you've corrupted your partitions by pulling the battery in the middle of a conversion, you need to get into download mode (volume down + home + power) and flash a firmware via Odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Basta112:
So, i can just download a 2.1 firmwire, downgrade it via odin, and then update it through kies? Is it really that simpel..